Profile: seriously addicted to the Internet

Your profile: Quicker than Rachmaninov on the piano, your fingers are lightning fast on the keyboard, you know everything there is to now about text language, and if you're connection's lost, you're lost! Whether you want to admit it or not, you're no stranger to Planet Geek and your friends and family are starting to think you might have been serious when you joked about grafting your smartphone onto the palm of your hand!

Warning! The Web has become your second home and you spend more time recruiting new online friends than you do having a laugh with your real ones, and you do more online flirting than real-life snogging! Get to know the "off" button and come back to Planet Earth!

Expert's opinion

The first victim of Internet addiction is reality. The virtual world takes over the real world. Real ambitions, real projects, real partners and friends are essential for our emotional development. Communicating is good but speaking is better!

It's therefore important to keep a close eye on the amount of time you're spending online: two hours a day in front of a computer screen should be the maximum. As for checking your personal emails, three times a day is ample.

Digital technology isn't supposed to spoil real life. So every time a digital activity means you have to put off another activity until tomorrow, it's time to switch off the computer or telephone!

Q7 - Despite what everyone says, you're curious to try out that new "Chatroulette" site that connects you with strangers for live video chats

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Q8 - There are at least 2 people amongst your online friends whom you're very close to but whom you've never actually met. You chat regularly and tell them things you've never told anyone else

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Q9 - It started with Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore and now you follow what all the celebs are getting up to through their tweets

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Q10 - At a birthday bash, at the office or in a nightclub, as soon as someone suggests taking a photo, you perfect your pose, bearing in mind that you could end up tagged on Facebook

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Q11 - On at least one occasion, you've gone back home even though you were already running late, to pick up your mobile that you left behind

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Q12 - As soon as you see something unusual or amusing, you take a photo with your mobile and post it on your profile or send it to your friends

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Q13 - You've already hesitated about going away for a weekend in the country because you won't have access to the Internet and there'll be no network coverage for your mobile

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Q14 - You're a bit ashamed but you feel more comfortable behind your online username when it comes to posting disparaging comments in forums or blogs...

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Q15 - You sometimes surprise yourself by speaking in sentences that consist of no more than 140 characters!

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Q16 - You've already pretended to be someone else on Facebook to test your boyfriend's faithfulness or to get closer to a stranger!

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Q17 - Your must-have accessory this year is, without question, a smartphone. And it goes with everything, bonus!

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Q18 - To respect your sleep cycles, you now use the Sleep Cycle app to wake you up. It's a lot easier on the ears than a piercing ring tone!

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Q19 - You've already fallen for someone you only know through the Internet. You've never met up in "real life" as you're too afraid of destroying the magic

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Q20 - You find it perfectly normal that fashion bloggers get front row seats at fashion weeks as they're the real trendsetters. Move over Anna Wintour!

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Q21 - To pass the time while using public transport, you don't tend to read much anymore, instead you try to improve your score on Doodle Jump or Bubble Wrap or you send texts!

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Q22 - Apart from your parents' phone number which hasn't changed for the last 15 years and your landline at work, you don't know any other numbers by heart. You don't need to: they're all saved on your SIM card

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Q23 - To be sure you don't forget to take your contraception, you use the iPill app

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Q24 - When your company decided to block access to Facebook due to "productivity concerns", you were tempted to call up the Institute of Human Rights!